Lord Poe's "Talas" - In progress art
Posted: 2006-08-22 08:50am
I've been working with Lord Poe on a few of his film projects. I've been working on ship designs and effects for his "Talas" film short. I'm posting these incomplete works partly for critique, and because I think you'll enjoy seeing this in-progress work. The internet ate my post unexpectedly, so here's the short version.
This is Talas's ship. I went for a rather unusual, asymetrical design. It's quite heavily armed with top and bottom turrets, and a small missle rack. You can see the extended landing gear. There's a lift that allows crew to disembark.
A one man interceptor craft. Little more than a main gun and missle bay strapped to an engine. The black box barely visible on the left "wing" is the incomplete cockpit. I wanted even a small one man ship to be quite large.
A larger corvette class craft. While it sports a heavy armnament, it has plent of internal space. Has a pair of gatling point defense weapons, 2 main cannons and a missle bay.
Here is all three ships together, roughly to scale:
A capital ship. Designed to engage with broadsides at long range. A massive armour plate protects the ship on one side. Designed as a sort of siege ship. It carries fighercraft to support point defense turrets for close range.
An image from a test animation. The beam is from one of the capital ships main guns.
A couple of test images that I quite like. I was using these scenes to try out laser and engine effects.
An early test video, with sound. I was trying different methods to control lights and the lasers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkPtP-ZzQ_c
This is Talas's ship. I went for a rather unusual, asymetrical design. It's quite heavily armed with top and bottom turrets, and a small missle rack. You can see the extended landing gear. There's a lift that allows crew to disembark.
A one man interceptor craft. Little more than a main gun and missle bay strapped to an engine. The black box barely visible on the left "wing" is the incomplete cockpit. I wanted even a small one man ship to be quite large.
A larger corvette class craft. While it sports a heavy armnament, it has plent of internal space. Has a pair of gatling point defense weapons, 2 main cannons and a missle bay.
Here is all three ships together, roughly to scale:
A capital ship. Designed to engage with broadsides at long range. A massive armour plate protects the ship on one side. Designed as a sort of siege ship. It carries fighercraft to support point defense turrets for close range.
An image from a test animation. The beam is from one of the capital ships main guns.
A couple of test images that I quite like. I was using these scenes to try out laser and engine effects.
An early test video, with sound. I was trying different methods to control lights and the lasers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkPtP-ZzQ_c
